Plutarch's Morals: Ethical EssaysGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 408 pages |
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... learning he seriously settled himself to read , " quotes as much from the Moralia as from the Lives . And in the seventeenth century I cannot but think the Moralia were largely read at our Universities , at least at the University of ...
... learning he seriously settled himself to read , " quotes as much from the Moralia as from the Lives . And in the seventeenth century I cannot but think the Moralia were largely read at our Universities , at least at the University of ...
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... learning to go to the fountain head . § XI . Exercise also ought not to be neglected , but we ought to send our boys to the master of the gymnasium to train them duly , partly with a view to carrying the body well , partly with a view ...
... learning to go to the fountain head . § XI . Exercise also ought not to be neglected , but we ought to send our boys to the master of the gymnasium to train them duly , partly with a view to carrying the body well , partly with a view ...
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... learning . For just as plants . grow with moderate rain , but are done for by too much rain , so the mind enlarges by a proper amount of work , but by too much is unhinged . We must therefore give our boys remission from continuous ...
... learning . For just as plants . grow with moderate rain , but are done for by too much rain , so the mind enlarges by a proper amount of work , but by too much is unhinged . We must therefore give our boys remission from continuous ...
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... learning ; and that was why they fabled Mnemosyne to be the mother of the Muses , hinting and insinuating that nothing so generates and contributes to the growth of learning as memory . And therefore the memory must be cultivated ...
... learning ; and that was why they fabled Mnemosyne to be the mother of the Muses , hinting and insinuating that nothing so generates and contributes to the growth of learning as memory . And therefore the memory must be cultivated ...
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... learning therein to be silent , might transfer our secrecy to the gods to human affairs . And no one ever yet repented of his silence , while multitudes have repented of their speaking . And what has not been said is easy to say , while ...
... learning therein to be silent , might transfer our secrecy to the gods to human affairs . And no one ever yet repented of his silence , while multitudes have repented of their speaking . And what has not been said is easy to say , while ...
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